Nicolas Roman Posner
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Nicolas Roman Posner
@nrposner.bsky.social
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data science UChicago -> NY;
comparable rat of confidence;
current pipeline: rust, neovim, slurm, scientific integrity;
writing @ nrposner.com, nicoroman.substack.com;
no kings;
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The very best argument for using Rust over C++: Rust isn't going to break the new tensorflow release on mac because of a mutex lock.

v2.20 has been out since august! At least we can switch back to v2.19
A screenshot of terminal output indicating that a python application fails due to an uncaught mutex lock exception in the libc++ ABI
November 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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How in the world does mlflow fail with a blocking mutex lock?
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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my god
November 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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*erases calendar and writes 'make pyo3 workshop in a month'* over entirety of November
October 29, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Now on my second read-through of 'On "Safe" C++' and I'm continuously impressed by @izzys.casa's ability to blow my mind and then smack me in the face with a stealth bomber pun in the span of a few sentences izzys.casa/2024/11/on-s...
A snippet from an article ending with the pun "The Sharif? Straight up gone. You can't even lock the taskbar!" punning on the Clash song 'Rock the Casbah'
October 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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This one doesn't count because it seems to be a logic bug, not a memory safety vulnerability per se, but very funny that these two posts showed up right next to each other!
October 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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@david.kolo.ski figured you might enjoy this one
An ironic meme attributing the headline 'No. The C++ mascot is not a diseased rat named Keith, and Richard Stallman did not draw him' to Big Brother from the film adaptation of 1984, while Keith looks on in horror
October 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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An ironic meme attributing the headline 'No. The C++ mascot is not a diseased rat named Keith, and Richard Stallman did not draw him' to Big Brother from the film adaptation of 1984, while Keith looks on in horror
October 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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A screenshot of an orc from the Lord of the Rings movies captioned with the phrase 'the age of windows is over, the time of the linux desktop has come'
October 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Damn Sudhanshu, what beef do you have with Steve 🤣
September 24, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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I went into this expected a nice 20-30% size reduction and uhhhh what

Splinter what are you doing
A bar graph showing the performance of two different compression algorithms in kilobytes
September 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Spotted in the wild while flying to #rustconf. Need I say more?
A picture of a checkout screen showing an error 'List index out of bounds (586)'
September 1, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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August 23, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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I do so love it when a graph comes together
August 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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August 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Always remember,
A badly-composited screenshot of Ferris, the Rust Language mascot, with the caption, 'Badly-composited Ferris needs YOU'
July 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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June 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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No Kings in Manhattan today
June 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Slurm: the only job scheduler written by Klingons
A piece of code from the Slurm job scheduler software, which reads 'if pointer, slurm_destroy_federation_rec()'
June 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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If someone comes into my home wearing this I am going to smash it with a hammer.
A picture of the newly announced AI Pin-like device created by Jony Ive. The poster thinks it looks horrendous.
May 23, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Who said you can't have fun in data science?
A transformer architecture sending money into NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, depicted with glowing red laser eyes, labeled 'Fig. 1'
May 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Looks like they appreciate the shoutout!
May 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Yet more: this is a chapter of a book retailing for over $200 on Amazon.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
April 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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God above, there's more
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
April 29, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Sure it is, yolo, sure it is
April 29, 2025 at 12:22 AM